PARNELLISM WANING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9423, 22 July 1889, Page 5

PARNELLISM WANING.

PLAYED OUT. DILLON MAKING POOR PROGRESS. OPINION AT HOME. Among the London contributors to the New York Herald is a correspondent who, under the signature of " A Member of Parliament," cables to that journal a weekly despatch dealing with political topice. It is well known that he is an Irish member of Parliament, and it may bo conjectured with some approximation to certainty that he is cither Mr. Justin McCarthy or Mr. I. P. O'Connor. Writing on June lJth, this member of Mr. Parnell's party alludes to the disclosures about the Olan-na-Gael Society, remarking that it is ' ninortunate that this dreadful scandal should have occurred in any section of the Irish ranks. He then continues :—" Tilings do not appear to bo going particularly well with tbe party. Mr. Dillon is evidently making rather poor progress in Australia, almost as poor as Mr. VYm. O'Urien made in Canada, except that Mr. Dillon is prudent and does not seek to mliiime popular passions. It does not, however, look as if money ware rolling in very fast. Ine funds at headquarters must begetting low, tor the plan of campaign is expensive, and so is the Special Commission, which is now certain to drag its slow length .ilong until autumri. Meanwhile the party is silont and inactive. It is absolutely doing nothing in Parliament or out, of it. Inaction always looks to the common eye like weakness; sometimes it roally is so, and that is what is being said now "in altnosb all directions. Some people may like it and some may not, but, undoubtedly, the talk runs like this :--'The Piirnellifces are sinking fast. Balfour is winning all along the line. In another year you will'not be able to find the Irish party with a telescope. Firmness lias done what we always said it would. Nobody thought there was much in Balfour, but, you see, he has bean one too many for the Flan of Campaign and all the rest of it. He had his chance, and he has made the most of it. Exnmt Parnell and Co. , Not a little premature, in my humble opinion, is such boasting as this, but still it goes on everywhere, as any well-informed man would be compelled to 'admit. The public soon take up an idea which is dinned persistently . into them, and if they are told a thing often enough they believe it. They hear now on j all sides that Parnellism is played out, that the game is up, that the party has gone to piecc'3 in England, that it holds together with difficulty in Ireland, that it is for the moineiit under a very heavy cloud in America, and that it stands at a discount in Australia. They may be all wrong, but these are the impressions which events are making upon the general multitude. I describe them to you because they are facts, and very important facts, but it is beyond my province to draw any conclusions from them."